galvanic pile : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: galvanic pile	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for galvanic pile
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
galvanic pile n battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series; the earliest electric battery devised by Volta Synonym(s): voltaic pile, pile, galvanic pile
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Galvanic \Gal*van"ic\, a. [From Galvani, a professor of physiology at Bologna, on account of his connection (about 1780) with the discovery of dynamical or current electricity: cf. F. galvanique.] Of or pertaining to, or exhibiting the phenomena of, galvanism; employing or producing electrical currents. {Galvanic battery} (Elec.), an apparatus for generating electrical currents by the mutual action of certain liquids and metals; -- now usually called {voltaic battery}. See {Battery}. {Galvanic} {circuit [or] circle}. (Elec.) See under {Circuit}. {Galvanic pile} (Elec.), the voltaic pile. See under {Voltaic}.